Jack White at the Hammersmith Apollo, W6

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The psychologist RD Laing wrote that madness offered liberation as well as
enslavement, and that’s how it felt at this concert by one of the most
compellingly unhinged artists in modern music. To his former bands the White
Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, Jack White has brought an
obsessional, violent quality, but it’s as a solo star, backed up by
extremely tight musicians willing to buy into his vision, that the full
extent of his mania comes out. No wonder this concert was so exciting. It
offered a brief glimpse into White’s strange world.